Detroit Red Wings forward Jacob de la Rose left Tuesday night’s game against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden and is currently hospitalized after experiencing a cardiac episode.
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#RedWings’ de la Rose sent to hospital with accelerated heart rate; Forward will remain in New York overnight and then return to Detroit to see a specialist: https://t.co/YkhRL1F8Zr pic.twitter.com/eOg0lSEPtS
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Between the second and third periods, de la Rose was diagnosed with an elevated heart beat and was sent to the hospital for, as head coach Jeff Blashill put it, “precautionary reasons”.
“We hope everything is fine,” Blashill said. “He’ll spend the night here, go home and see a specialist and make sure everything is good. We want to be extra cautious with it.”
Assistant athletic trainer Russ Baumann plans to stay with de la Rose while the rest of the team flies to St. Louis for a game against the Blues on Thursday. The plan is for de la Rose to stay overnight in the hospital in New York before returning to Detroit to see a specialist.
This isn’t the first time that de la Rose has experienced a cardiac episode; last fall while a member of the Montreal Canadiens, he experienced one during an exhibition game.
“I think he probably felt it and went to the training staff,” Blashill said. “The training staff checked him and it was accelerated and they couldn’t get it to slow down. At that point, you get him to the hospital to make sure. Again, I think it is all precautionary right now, but he will go back and see a specialist.”
de la Rose recorded his sixth assist of the season during Detroit’s 3-2 win over the Rangers.
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BREAKING: Red Wings expected to re-sign goaltender Jimmy Howard
Detroit Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard is an unrestricted free agent at the end of this season, but it doesn’t look like he’ll be wearing a new jersey next year.
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According to reports, the Red Wings are expected to re-sign the New York native to a contract believed to be one-year in length and around $4 million in salary.
Jimmy Howard is close to signing a 1-year contract extension with the Red Wings. Howard said some language is being worked out, but it's going to get done. Ken Holland confirmed. Howard said he's fine with a 1-year deal. He had no desire to leave Detroit. "It's home," he said.
— Dan Rosen (@drosennhl) March 20, 2019
The decision is expected to be announced later this week.
